3 surprising reasons you should add bugs to your diet

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• Diet tracking app Lifesum has added insects to its catalogue.
• Users can add in their meals that contain grasshoppers, mealworms, and crickets.
• Insects are surprisingly nutritious.
• They’re also much more environmentally friendly to farm.
• You don’t have to eat them whole — many come in handy powder form.

Diet and fitness app Lifesum has just started allowing users to track their consumption of insects. Its user base of about 30 million people are now able to add to their profile whether they’ve eaten grasshoppers, mealworms, and various other bugs alongside the more regular food groups.

Lifesum has collaborated with Entomo Farms, which is North America’s largest producer of edible insects. About two billion people around the world already eat insects in some capacity, so maybe it’s only a matter of time until more people in the western world are clocking how many crickets they had in their lunch.

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